By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 WASHINGTON — Suppose someone — say, the president of United States — proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now. I’ve got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 After the recent Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, a Democrat, almost immediately and without evidence claimed that conservative anti-government speech had set off alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner. Yet the more the unfolding details informed us that the “Communist Manifesto”/”Mein Kampf”-reading [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 In the eight days since the deadly shootings in Arizona, the nation has been engulfed by a tidal wave of rhetoric and reaction, much of it unnecessary, ungracious, or unfortunate. But amid the flood of words, two voices have spoken with an uplifting decency and grace [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 Time will tell, but I reject the somewhat cynical view that the House Republicans’ vote to repeal Obamacare is purely symbolic. I think it’s quite significant. We are engaged in a war to save our nation from crippling debt and systematic assaults on our Constitution and [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 Civility in public discourse is important, but it should not be used as an excuse to stifle legitimate debate or denude our language of color, passion, or good metaphor. Unfortunately, some in the media don’t seem to understand the difference. CNN’s John King, for example, apologized [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 What a bother having to deal with Congress, public opinion, elections, the whole complicated web that the Founders in their antiquated vocabulary referred to as the consent of the governed. How much simpler to pass your own laws. Just call them executive orders or administrative rules, [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 On Tuesday, the president will deliver his State of the Union message. The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will continue his “move to the center.” The quotation marks are necessary because some people think he really is moving to the center, while others think he [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 Let’s give the “climate of hate” rhetoric a rest for a moment. It’s time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing language and a callous disregard for life have numbed America to its monstrous consequences. Consider [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, January 21, 2011 WASHINGTON — When the world tunes in for the State of the Union address next week, viewers will be treated to a dramatic improvement in the background scenery. Thanks to American voters, House Speaker John Boehner’s well-tanned smile will be behind the president instead of Nancy [...]

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, January 20, 2011 “[Confinement] to a passive commerce would [compel us] to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. [Our] spirit of enterprise … an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread our [...]